Zephyr (train)

The Pioneer Zephyr is a diesel-powered stream-lined train-set built by the Budd Company in 1934 for the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad in the United States.

Since then, a zephyr has come to mean an American passenger rail route operated using stream-liner train-set of locomotives or power cars with matching passenger cars. Zephyr rail routes with proper names include:

• Illinois Zephyr, Chicago, Illinois to Quincy, Illinois
• California Zephyr, Chicago, Illinois to Emeryville, California
• San Francisco Zephyr, Chicago, Illinois to San Francisco, California

• Rocky Mountain Rocket, Chicago, Illinois to Denver, Colorado
• Sam Houston Zephyr, Fort Worth to Houston, Texas
• Zephyr Rocket, St. Louis, Missouri to Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota (jointly operated with Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad)

• Ak-Sar-Ben Zephyr, Lincoln, Nebraska to Chicago, Illinois
• American Royal Zephyr, Chicago to Kansas City
• Denver Zephyr, Denver to Chicago
• General Pershing Zephyr, Kansas City to St. Louis
• Kansas City Zephyr, Kansas City to Chicago
• Nebraska Zephyr, Chicago, Illinois to Lincoln, Nebraska
• Ozark State Zephyr, Kansas City to St. Louis
• Silver Streak Zephyr, Lincoln, Nebraska to Kansas City, Missouri
• Twin Cities Zephyr, Chicago to Minneapolis
• Zephyr Rocket, St. Louis to Minneapolis; jointly operated with Rock Island Railroad

• Mark Twain Zephyr, St. Louis, Missouri to Burlington, Iowa; an early articulated trainset
• Minnesota Zephyr, a heritage railroad out of Stillwater, Minnesota
• Rio Grande Zephyr, Denver, Colorado to Ogden, Utah; operated by Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad
• Texas Zephyr, Denver to Dallas